Megan E. Leight is a teaching assistant professor of art history at West Virginia University. She has worked in the Maya region since 2011. Brent K. S. Woodfill is a professor of anthropology at Winthrop University. He is author of War in the Land of True Peace: The Fight for Maya Sacred Spaces and Ritual and Trade in the Pasión-Verapaz Region, Guatemala.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Understanding the Northern Transversal StripIntroduction: Shining a Light on the Borderlands between the Maya Lowlands and the Guatemalan HighlandsMegan E. Leight and Brent K. S. Woodfill 1. The Key to Understanding Both Maya Lowland and Highland Ancient Political Economies: The Trajectory and Impact of Research in the Transversal Interface RegionArthur A. DemarestPart II: Sites, Regions, and Regional History2. The Transversal Economic Network: Forming a Breakaway Network through Economic Benefits and Ideological SeductionArthur A. Demarest and Paola Torres3. The Archaeology of the Chixoy BasinBrent K. S. Woodfill, Caitlin Earley, and Alexander E. Rivas4. Entre Dos Cuencas: The Chaculá Region in Northwestern HuehuetenangoUlrich WölfelPart III: Interrelations and Environment5. Ceramic Interaction in the Northern Transversal Strip during the Late Classic PeriodJorge Mario Ortíz de León, Socorro Jiménez Álvarez, Paola Torres, Claudia Arriaza, Miryam Saravia, Juan Francisco Saravia, Carlos Fidel Tuyuc Nij, and Diana Méndez Lee6. Changing Ritual Intent in a Stone Coffer from an Unlooted Cave in Central GuatemalaErin L. Sears7. Not All Distance Is Kilometric: Obsidian Procurement at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros and CancuenChloé Andrieu and Edgar H. Carpio Rezzio8. The Prehispanic and Colonial Exchange of Perishable Goods in and throughthe Northern Transversal Strip: Achiote, Cacao, Salt, and Exotic FeathersBrent K. S. Woodfill, Mark W. Lentz, and Megan E. Leight9. The Sacred, Urban Landscape of Cancuen and Salinas de los Nueve CerrosMarc Wolf10. Paleoecology of the Chixoy Alluvial Plains along the Northern Transversal StripCarlos Avendaño, Claudia L. M. Morales-Flores, Juan Carlos Berrio, Carla Paola del Cid López, Silvia Carolina Duarte Morales, Rosa Delfina Sunum Orellana, Mónica María Cajas Castillo, Nora Machuca Mejía, Sharon A. Cowling, Sarah Finkelstein, Ramiro Tox, Oscar A. Rojas-Castillo, and Carolina Rosales de Zea11. Born in Xibalba: Kanek'-Kaweq Lineage History in the Franja Transversal del NorteRuud van AkkerenBibliographyContributorsIndex

"Woodfill and Leight fill a void in our knowledge about the ancient Maya world and the interactions that occurred within an area between the Maya Highlands and the archaeologically well-worked Maya lowlands."—Arlen Chase, co-editor, Ancient Mesoamerican Population History: Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change"Living between Worlds is an excellent contribution to Maya archaeology because it covers a region encompassing the interface between the Maya lowlands and highlands. It is a very cohesive and interesting volume."—Joel Palka, author of Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes: Insights from Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography